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    The terrible price of victory: A brief look at the sacrifices of the USSR in WWII
    Michael Laxer
    • May 10
    • 7 min

    The terrible price of victory: A brief look at the sacrifices of the USSR in WWII

    Today on May 9 -- Victory Day in the former USSR as it was on this day in 1945 that the Soviets formally accepted the German surrender --...
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    Stalingrad Year One: A look at the battle and rebuilding from the first anniversary of victory
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 3
    • 17 min

    Stalingrad Year One: A look at the battle and rebuilding from the first anniversary of victory

    The two remarkable documents republished here are from the first anniversary of the February 2, 1943 victory. A street in Stalingrad just...
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    Daily LIFT #635
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 29
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #635

    Tanks produced in Leningrad factories drive straight to the front down the Nevsky Prospekt to try to break the siege, January 1943 --...
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    Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper, killed in action January 28, 1945
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 29
    • 2 min

    Roza Shanina, Soviet sniper, killed in action January 28, 1945

    Roza Shanina, born 3 April 1924, grew up in a large working class family in a small town outside of Arkhangelsk. Her parents had named...
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    Daily LIFT #634
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 28
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #634

    A woman embraces a soldier with joy on the day the Siege of Leningrad was lifted, January 27, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #634 On January 27, 1944...
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    Daily LIFT #608
    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #608

    1941, painting Viktor Ni (1934-1979), USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #608 Haunting artistic evocation of the start of the Great Patriotic War in...
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    Daily LIFT #594
    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #594

    Soviet soldiers man an air defense gun in Moscow during the Battle of Moscow. In the background can be seen the famous socialist realist...
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    Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941
    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 5, 2021
    • 5 min

    Red Army stops the Nazis at the gates of Moscow, Dec. 5 1941

    On December 5, 1941 the Red Army launched a counter-offensive against the Nazi invaders at the very gates of Moscow. This was totally...
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    Daily LIFT #586
    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 25, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #586

    French Resistance fighter with her rifle and rounds in Rouen during the liberation, 1944 -- Daily LIFT #586 Rouen was finally liberated...
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    Daily LIFT #483
    Michael Laxer
    • Jun 23, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #483

    Soviet partisans after the liberation of the Crimea from the Nazis, May 1944 -- Daily LIFT #483
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    The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941
    Michael Laxer
    • Jun 22, 2021
    • 15 min

    The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, June 22 1941

    An Soviet account of the incredible bravery of the Red Army garrison in the opening days of the Nazi invasion. The Courage Monument in...
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    Happy Victory Day
    Michael Laxer
    • May 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Happy Victory Day

    Happy Victory Day! May 9th, 1945 was Victory Day in the USSR when the Soviets officially accepted the surrender of Germany after years of...
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    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City
    Michael Laxer
    • Apr 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    15 panoramic views of Soviet Novorossiysk, port and Hero City

    With two bonus views. Text translated from the Russian. The city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea was a prominent and storied port in...
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    Daily LIFT #409
    Michael Laxer
    • Mar 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #409

    The Barrow of Glory, USSR 1969 -- Daily LIFT #409 Located 21 kilometers outside of Minsk on the Moscow Highway, the Barrow of Glory was...
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    Daily LIFT #390
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Daily LIFT #390

    8th Yugoslav Partisans' Corps marches through Mostar after liberating it, February 1945 -- Daily LIFT #390 On February 14, 1945 the city...
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    Sacrifice at Krasnodon - February 9, 1943
    Michael Laxer
    • Feb 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Sacrifice at Krasnodon - February 9, 1943

    Monument to the Young Guards in Krasnodon -- erected in the Ukrainian SSR, 1954 On February 9, 1943, five heroic leaders and partisans of...
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    Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Leningrad: A photographic exposition of resistance, victory and reconstruction

    On January 27, 1944 the Red Army finally lifted the siege of Leningrad. These contrasting images of the city during the days of the war...
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    Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943
    Michael Laxer
    • Jan 26, 2021
    • 7 min

    Red Army troops take Mamayev Kurgan, January 26 1943

    Decisive moment in the victory at Stalingrad. On January 26, 1943 Soviet forces captured the heights of Mamayev Kurgan in the city of...
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    Nadezhda Popova, b. December 27, 1921
    Michael Laxer
    • Dec 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Nadezhda Popova, b. December 27, 1921

    Hero of the Soviet Union, Ace Pilot and and Night Bomber. Hero of the Soviet Union, Nadezhda Popova, ace pilot and and night bomber was...
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    "You can't hang us all. They will avenge me."
    Michael Laxer
    • Nov 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    "You can't hang us all. They will avenge me."

    Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, murdered November 29, 1941 "You hang me now, but I'm not alone. There are 200 million of us. You can't hang us...
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